What about the parents?
ByThe City Council has released its report on nightlife in the City titled, “Safer Nights, Safer City”. The report’s aim is to come up with recommendations on how to improve the safety of club goers after a number of fatal incidents. The Council’s ideas include everything from ID scanners and surveillance cameras (the ACLU must love that one) to shutting down clubs that have multiple offenses.
The problem I have with the report is once again our representatives fail to hold parents with any accountability. It was only a couple days ago when I discussed how the City refuses to call parents out on the failings of the city’s public schools and now the City Council has followed with not a peep about the role parents should be playing when it comes to their 18 year-olds club hoping in the city. In the Council’s report they start by showing examples of recent tragedies on the club scene, all included underage drinking.
Besides attacking nightclubs and spending more taxpayer’s dollars on a bigger police presence, Christine Quinn and the gang should tell the parents of this city to get their crap together and start being a parent. Without a joint effort between clubs making sure patrons are of proper age and parents making sure they know what their children are doing, the problem is not going to go away.
For once I would like to see at least one elected official stand up and tell the parents of these kids that they’re the problem not the city or schools.
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8 Comments
January 11th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
Nick, 18-year-olds are legal adults, the parents are no longer legally accountable.
January 11th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Tell that to their parent’s lawyer who will be defending the lawsuit thrown at the parents after their 18 year old runs someone over driving drunk.
The reality is that the parents are still accountable if the child is living under their roof.
January 11th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
Just because some parents choose to still support young adults, doesn’t mean those young adults should not be held responsible for themselves.
Also, part of the reason some people I know that live with their parents in the late teens or early 20s, even later 20s, is that it makes fiscal sense with the high cost of living in NYC. I don’t see what is so terrible about that.
Also, I don’t see what the issue is with young adults partying anyway – in most other western countries, isn’t the drinking age 18?
January 11th, 2007 at 9:53 pm
Seriously, what is wrong with someone trying to save money by living with family members? I personally think its being fiscally responsible. I have a number of friends outside the city that lived with parents so they could save up for a downpayment on a house.
Sounds like you really just have some serious mommy/daddy issues.
January 12th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
My comment was simperly a response to the immaturity and close-mindedness of your earlier comments. You seem overly bitter about this issue, I was just wondering if maybe its just jealousy on your part.
There are a lot of reasons that young adults choose to live with their parents, it doesn’t mean they are irresponsible or selfish. Who are you to judge them?
January 12th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
I thought it was pretty obvious but since you need things spelled out – it seems you may be jealous that other people have parents willing to help them out.
By the way, if you are going to accuse someone of being immature, calling them childish is not a mature way to go about it. I’ll borrow a term Mike and Nick like to use a lot ‘pot calling the kettle black much?’
January 12th, 2007 at 5:22 pm
People on this blog have accused me of being a liberal, showing my blue state side and having kerryitis – I don’t start whining about how they are childish when they do that. I guess I just have a stronger backbone than you.
January 12th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
Pretty much everywhere else in the world higher numbers of adult children live with the parents than in America. For many it is cultural. People are getting married later too, and going to school longer (for graduate degrees). Here’s an interesting study. http://www.statcan.ca/english/studies/11-008/feature/11-008-XIE20050049124.pdf
Often when adult children live at home it is a more symbiotic relationship, where the parent or parents benefit from the adult child’s company and contribution to the home as well. You can live at home and be an adult. The problem arisies when you live at home and continue to act like a child or even be treated like one. But I doubt anyone would excuse that.